This past week, Connecticut passed what advocacy groups call the strongest gun-control legislation of any state in the country.
And they should call on any groups with influence to desist from words or deeds that may fuel the conflict.
Still, even if those groups call for boycotts, the net result of additional publicity, albeit negative, would likely be positive for game sales.
But many public interest groups call the final version weak, because it omitted a provision in the Senate version that would have regulated "political intelligence, " the practice of gathering information from lawmakers and Hill aides that could be used to make investment decisions.
One of the most striking findings of the Demos survey was that 18-24-year-olds were one of the most likely age groups to call for government controls on how benefits are spent.
However each of these two groups make the call when it comes time to buy things such as groceries, cleaning products, clothing and holiday shopping.
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"Until we get the new legislation, we can't call forward all the other groups that would probably need to register and we estimate that there could be between 7, 000-10, 000 groups in Northern Ireland that could be deemed as charities, " he said.
However, consumer groups have echoed the call for a rethink.
Our correspondent says the number of confrontations between the armed forces and the rebel groups, which the authorities call "narco-terrorists", is increasing.
Disability groups have formed what they call the "baywatch campaign" with the aim of stopping people they describe as lazy and selfish abusing parking bays reserved for disabled customers.
The Rural Services Network, made up of 80 rural local authorities plus 150 other groups, has launched a call for action to support rural England, saying the people who live there are not prepared to be treated as second-class citizens.
The other was a much larger gathering of people from what we would now call civil society, or environmental campaign groups, who used the now familiar smorgasbord of marches, song, demonstrations and dialogue to press issues from pollution control to civil rights to vegetarianism.
In the last several years, church leaders have been trying to shore up the religious identity and mission of organizations that call themselves Catholic, including trying to bar groups from saying they have ties with the church if bishops believe the organizations stray from church teaching.
The good news is that market research is no longer limited to focus groups, mall intercepts, and phone call surveys.
He is cosier with the sort of interest groups (trade unions) that will call for protection, and is keener on using labour and environmental standards to hamper trade.
Mr Russell's call has sparked criticism from some disabled people's groups.
Officials from several immigrant rights' groups and the Catholic church held a conference call Tuesday to highlight their concerns about the bill, including a cutoff date that excludes people who arrived here after 2011, and provisions disqualifying anyone with a felony conviction or more than two misdemeanors.
That is the work of the citizen, and groups of citizens, and very often, groups of citizens who respond to their faith-call to be a part of that great compassion.
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Roma groups want international support for these people, whom they call the forgotten victims of the Kosovo war.
It can only be hoped that the overwhelming majority of American Jews who clearly wish to support Israel will join these activists' call and demand that all Jewish Federations stop allowing anti-Israel groups to feed from the communal trough.
It also hopes to use new technology to tackle social exclusion, such as ensuring call centres employ staff who speak different languages in areas with large ethnic groups.
"The Secretary-General welcomes that bilateral partners are responding, at the request and with the consent of the government of Mali, to its call for assistance to counter the troubling push southward by armed and terrorist groups, " his office said in a statement.
Groups including Ribble Estuary Against Fracking and Friends of the Earth made the call at a protest in Preston.
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Bush's radio address is part of what the White House calls its summer strategy, having the president focus on what aides call "compassionate" issues, such as education, a plan to allow religious groups to obtain federal tax dollars to provide social services and the president's ideas for a patients' bill of rights.
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Since the fall of Ben Ali, there has been a rise not just in moderate Islamist groups but also hardline ultraorthodox Muslims known as salafis, who have railed against what they call the secular elements of a country long known for its progressive attitudes, especially concerning women's rights.
But European Court of Justice rulings have had an impact on particular groups, such as doctors, oil rig workers and those whose job involves being "on call" for periods of time.
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